TITLE: Finale
NAME: Richard Webster
COUNTRY: England
EMAIL: irtc_mail@yahoo.co.uk
TOPIC: The end of ...
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: finale.mpg
RENDERER USED: 
    Maxon Cinema4D CE6

TOOLS USED: 
    POV-Ray 3.5, ComputerMuzys, Sampletank FreePiano, TMPGEnc
RENDER TIME: 6 hours

HARDWARE USED: 
    AMD Duron 1.1GHz 1GB RAM


ANIMATION DESCRIPTION: 


 This started with the idea for a theme of the often not well-defined
 ending of a piece of music with multiple false endings.

 The setting was chosen as a coming together of the penguin-like
 appearance of classical musicians and their audience and an ice/water
 environment which provides the event which brings the performance to
 an end.

 The 'music' was written to have a cyclic rhythm so that matching the
 movements of the pianist with the overall rhythm would be enough,
 thus avoiding having to match individual finger movements.


DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED: 


 All the modelling was done in C4D. The penguins are modelled with
 NURBS and animated with bones. The penguin texture is an image map
 created with POV-Ray. The piano is made from extruded splines.

 All animation is keyframed except for the piano playing action of
 the pianist's wings which is scripted.

 The water in the ice hole is a wind deformer applied to a plane and
 the caustics are done by moving the ice texture around. The splash
 is the C4D particle system.

 The piano part of the soundtrack was written for this animation, the
 rest of the sounds are public domain sound effects from
 www.partnersinrhyme.com.

 The sequenced piano and sound effects were combined in ComputerMuzys
 and rendered to an uncompressed wav file. The images were rendered
 uncompressed at 320x240 with antialiasing. TMPGEnc was used to
 combine the images and sound into the mpg.